The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . ndix 7.] 122 Jacobitse et Nestoriani plures quam Greeci et Latini. Jacob a Vitriaco, 1. ii. c. 76, p. 1093, in the Gesta Dei per Francos. The numbers aregiven by Thomassin, Discipline de IEglise, tom. i. p. 172, [For the Nestoriansunder the Abbasids, cp. Labourt, De Timotheo I. Nestorianorum patriarcha (728-823)et christianorum orientalium condicione sub chalifis Abbasidis, 1904 (Paris).] 123 The division of the patriarchate may be traced in the Bibliotheca Orient, ofAssemanni, tom. i. p. 523-549 ; tom. ii. p. 457, &c.; t
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire . ndix 7.] 122 Jacobitse et Nestoriani plures quam Greeci et Latini. Jacob a Vitriaco, 1. ii. c. 76, p. 1093, in the Gesta Dei per Francos. The numbers aregiven by Thomassin, Discipline de IEglise, tom. i. p. 172, [For the Nestoriansunder the Abbasids, cp. Labourt, De Timotheo I. Nestorianorum patriarcha (728-823)et christianorum orientalium condicione sub chalifis Abbasidis, 1904 (Paris).] 123 The division of the patriarchate may be traced in the Bibliotheca Orient, ofAssemanni, tom. i. p. 523-549 ; tom. ii. p. 457, &c.; tom. iii. p. 603, p. 621-623;tom. iv. p. 164-169, p. 423, p. 622-629, &c. I The pompous language of Rome, on the submission of a Nestorian patriarch,is elegantly represented in the viith book of Fra-Paolo: Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela,and the trophies of Alexander, Tauris and Ecbatana, the Tigris and Indus. 128 The Indian missionary St. Thomas, an apostle, a Manieheean, or anArmenian merchant (La Croze, Christianisme des Indes, tom. i. p. 57-70), was. CROSS AND PART OF THE INSCRIPTION ON THE GRANITE MONUMENTAT SI-NGAN-FU (EIGHTH CENTURY) Chap, xlvii] OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 161 his shrine, perhaps in the neighbourhood of Madras, was de-voutly visited by the ambassadors of Alfred, and their returnwith a cargo of pearls and spices rewarded the zeal of theEnglish monarch, who entertained the largest projects of tradeand discovery.^^ When the Portuguese first opened the navi-gation of India, the Christians of St. Thomas had been seatedfor ages on the coast of Malabar, and the difference of theircharacter and colour attested the mixture of a foreign race. Inarms, in arts, and possibly in virtue, they excelled the nativesof Hindostan; the husbandmen cultivated the palm-tree, themerchants were enriched by the pepper-trade, the soldiers pre-ceded the nairs or nobles of Malabar, and their hereditaryprivileges were respected by the gratitude or the fear of theking of Cochin and the Zamorin himsel
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